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New Dhaka mayors, councillors sworn in

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MNA National Desk: The newly-elected mayors and councillors of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) took oath of office on Thursday morning. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath to DNCC and DSCC mayors-elect Atiqul Islam and Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh respectively at a function at the Shapla Hall of the Prime Minister’s Office. Later, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam administered oath to the councillors elected from both general wards and reserved seats. However, the newly-elected mayors and councillors will have to wait until mid-May to take over charge as the five-year ...

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New Dhaka City mayors: Time to turn promises into reality

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MNA Editorial Desk: Dhaka city has received two new mayors on Feb 1. After an intense election, the new mayors of Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation along with newly elected councillors will take office soon. Before the election, they made thousands of promises to the city residents focusing on the development and welfare of this megacity as well as its citizens. But the promises are not enough as we have seen severe failures of the former mayors and councillors in the past. The citizens of Dhaka are mistreated and victims of fake promises for a long ...

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AL mayoral candidates win both DSCC, DNCC polls

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MNA National Desk: Awami League mayoral candidates were unofficially declared elected in the elections to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Saturday. Ruling party contestant Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh won the DSCC election bagging 424,595 votes. He defeated BNP’s Ishraque Hossain, who polled 236,512, by 188,083 votes. DSCC returning officer Abdul Baten announced the results around 12:38am on Sunday. He said the voter turnout in the DSCC election was 29.002 per cent. In DNCC, AL runner Atiqul Islam got 447,211 votes to defeat Tabith Awal of BNP, who polled 264,161, by 183,050 votes. Returning ...

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EC working independently: Quader on Dhaka city polls

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MNA National Desk: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government is not interfering with elections to the Dhaka south (DSCC) and north (DNCC) city corporations. “The Election Commission (EC) is not working at the order of the government. It is working independently,” he told reporters, responding to BNP’s allegation of influencing the EC’s work. The minister said on Thursday that the government is not interfering with the election process. “It never will,” he added. Obaidul Quader said the people should abide by the order passed by the High Court regarding deferment of the Dhaka city polls, ...

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DNCC launches ‘combing operation’ to terminate dengue menace

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MNA Editorial Desk: The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has announced a so-called ‘combing operation’ aiming to terminate the dengue-inducing Aedes mosquitoes. The programme is set to begin on Tuesday at Dhaka North ward No. 19, said DNCC spokesman ASM Mamun. The authorities divided each ward into 10 sections for the programme, Mamun said. Each section will be assigned 10 cleaners and an officer will oversee the activities., says a bdnews24 report. “The DNCC staff will visit every house in every area during the combing operation. They will check for Aedes mosquito larvae in these houses or establishments. Action will ...

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Gulshan kitchen market fire destroys 211 shops

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MNA National Desk: The fire that broke out Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan area on Saturday has gutted all of the 211 shops in the market. Zaman Prodhan, vice-president of Gulshan-1 DNCC Kitchen Super Market Cooperative Association, told reporters that there were 211 shops in the market and all of the shops were gutted in the fire. The fire broke out around 5:45 am and was fully doused around 11:30am. Army, Navy and Air Force members also joined the fire service teams in dousing the fire. However, no casualty was reported, said Khurshid Anwar, a senior ...

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New DNCC mayor: Scores of tasks and stern challenges ahead

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MNA Editorial Desk: Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has got a brand new mayor in the form of ex-BGMEA chief Atiqul Islam after the position was vacant for over a year due to the unfortunate demise of ex-DNCC mayor Annisul Huq in 2017. Atiqul has a very short time, just over a year, to work as a mayor unless he gets re-elected in the next scheduled mayoral polls. That gives him a little while to create an impact. His predecessor Annisul Huq was a charismatic DNCC mayor as he took many bold changes and transformed many parts of his constituency ...

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Atiqul becomes DNCC Mayor by-polls by a huge margin

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MNA National Desk: Awami League candidate Atiqul Islam was unofficially declared elected in the by-election to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Thursday. He won the election by a huge margin of 7,86,873 votes, bagging 8,39,302 votes, while his nearest rival Shafin Ahmed of Jatiya Party polled only 52,429 in all 1,295 polling centres. Returning Officer Abul Kashem announced the results at the result collection and announcement centre set up at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre around 1:30 am on Friday. He said the overall voter turnout in the election was 31.05 per cent. Earlier, voting in ...

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Banks in DSCC, DNCC to remain closed Thursday

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MNA Business Desk: All the branches of scheduled banks will remain closed tomorrow (Thursday) in the election areas across the country, said a circular issued by Bangladesh Bank (BB). The branches of the commercial banks at Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) areas will remain closed to enable bank officials and employees to cast their votes. The other areas where banks will remain closed are Amtali municipality area of Barguna district, Kaliganj municipality area of Jhenaidah district, Azimpur, Farrukhabad and Biral unions of the Biral Upazila under Dinajpur district, Bhir Betagoir and Char Betagoir ...

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HC open doors for DNCC by-election

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MNA National Desk: The High Court (HC) on Wednesday cleared the way for holding the by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The bench of Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore and Justice Mohammad Ullah withdrew its earlier order that kept the mayoral by-election withheld for six months. The court also rejected three separate petitions filed on the election affairs, said Kazi Mynul Hasan, a counsel of the Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD). The High Court withdrew the stay order and rejected three petitions as no lawyer from the petitioner was present during the hearing, said the counsel, reports UNB. Now ...

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DNCC panel mayor Md Osman Gani dies

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MNA National Desk: Senior Awami League leader and Panel Mayor 1 of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Md Osman Gani has died while undergoing treatment in Singapore. He died at Singapore General Hospital around 8:30am on Saturday (Bangladesh time), confirmed DNCC Public Relations Officer ASM Mamun. Gani was 69 years old at the time of his death. The DNCC panel mayor had left Dhaka for Singapore on August 14 this year. His body will be brought back home in a Singapore Airlines flight around 11:40 on Sunday. In a Facebook post, DNCC prayed for the departed soul of Osman Gani ...

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DNCC polls: SC orders disposal of HC rule

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MNA National Desk: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the High Court for expeditious disposal of its previous rule issued halting the by-election to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). A four-member appeal bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, passed the order after disposal of the leave-to-appeal filed by Election Commission (EC) challenging the High Court order. EC lawyer Towhidul Islam said the Appellate Division assigned the HC bench, led by Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore, for quick disposal of the rule. The process for holding the elections to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will ...

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HC halts DNCC by-polls for 3 months

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MNA National Desk: The High Court (HC) has stayed the Feb 26 by-polls in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and elections in new wards for three months. Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the order on Wednesday after two Union Parishad chairmen filed petitions. The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the schedule to hold the DNCC polls will not be declared illegal. Earlier, on Tuesday two separate writ petitions were filed with the HC seeking stay on the upcoming by-polls to the mayoral post of DNCC. As per the schedule ...

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Atiqul gets ticket for DNCC mayoral race

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MNA National Desk: Ruling Awami League has picked businessman Atiqul Islam as the party’s candidate in the upcoming by-polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor post. Awami League Local Government Parliamentary Board endorsed him at a meeting held on Tuesday night with party president Sheikh Hasina in the chair, said AL general secretary Obaidul Quader. Atiqul is a former president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). A newcomer in politics, he is a brother to former chief justice Md Tofazzal Islam and former BGB chief Moinul Islam. Hasina and other senior leaders of the party interviewed ...

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Tabith gets ticket to run for DNCC mayor

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MNA National Desk: The BNP-led coalition has again picked Md Tabith Awal to run for the mayor in the by-polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The party’s nomination board led by its chairperson Khaleda Zia took the decision after interviewing its mayoral aspirants at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office on Monday night. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia-led panel interviewed the five candidates who sought the party’s ticket. The others who sought ticket were BNP Special Affairs Secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon, retired army major and former MP Akhtaruzzaman, Dhaka Metropolitan North Unit President MA Kayum and BNP’s Assistant Secretary for Publication ...

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DNCC mayoral polls in February last week

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MNA National Desk: The by-polls to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will be held in last week of February, Election Commission (EC) acting Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed said on Sunday. The elections for the councilor post in the 36 new wards -18 of the DNCC and 18 of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC)-will be held on the same day during the end-February. The EC acting secretary came up with the information while briefing to reporters after a meeting in the city’s Nirbachan Bhaban. The mayoral seat was vacated following the death of Annisul Huq on Nov ...

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Mayor Annisul Huq on life support

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MNA National Desk: Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq, who has been undergoing treatment in London for cerebral vasculitis, is now on life support in a hospital there. Mizanur Rahman, personal assistant to the mayor, on Tuesday evening said Annisul has been kept under life support in the hospital since Monday as his condition was deteriorating. The DNCC Mayor was shifted from the intensive care unit of the hospital to another hospital for physiotherapy on October 31. Annisul, who had been suffering from neurological problem (dizziness and lack of balance) was diagnosed with cerebral vasculitis at a London ...

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Dhaka to get 36 new wards

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MNA National Desk: The 36 wards formed recently by the government in Dhaka have been added to Dhaka’s two city corporations. Dhaka expands by more than double after inclusion of 16 union councils. The Local Government Division issued a gazette on July 26 after city corporation officials recommended their formation for holding councillor election. Dhaka North now has 54 wards, after the addition of 18 new-ward. Dhaka South wards have risen from 57 to 75. The number of wards inside the two Dhaka City Corporations stands at 129. Shyampur, Dania, Matuail, Sarulia, Demra, Manda, Dakshingaon and Nasirabad unions were added ...

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Govt to introduce 4,500 buses in Dhaka

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MNA Editorial Desk: The government has adopted a plan to introduce 4,500 new buses in the capital to ease the existing transport sufferings of the city dwellers, said Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Annisul Huq on Monday. “Government is going to replace aged and unfit fleet of buses from the city road with these new ones. It is also mulling the idea of deploying air-conditioned buses for women. Sufferings of women, school going children and office goers will be reduced significantly once these new buses come to the streets,” the DNCC mayor said. Annisul came up with observations while ...

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E-heart App for cardiac patients

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MNA Science & Tech Desk: Patients of National Heart Foundation (NHF), who forget to take their heart medicines as prescribed can now better manage their dosages and routines through a new smart phone App launched in Dhaka on Tuesday. Bangladesh University at its Urban Lab, with the cooperation of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Division, made this App for the NHF heart patients. Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq inaugurated the app as the chief guest at a function at (NHF) auditorium in city’s Mirpur area. The App can only be used by the patient of NHF. Patient ...

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DNCC not liable for Chikungunya

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MNA National Desk: Mayor Anisul Haque on Friday said that Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is not liable for spreading Chikungunya fever in the area. We are trying our best to kill mosquitoes outside residences. It’s not possible to go every house to kill mosquitoes,” Annisul said at a press briefing in the capital. ”Chikungunya-Bearing mosquitoes virus born in dirty environment of house.” He claimed. DNCC has taken comprehensive steps to kill mosquitoes by spraying medicines, he pointed out. He, however, assured the people that the city corporation has taken all necessary steps to combat the disease. Health Minister Mohammad ...

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Dhaka’s meat traders resume selling as strike ends

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MNA Business Desk: Dhaka city’s meat traders will resume selling red meat on Sunday as their six-day strike, seeking implementation of their four demands, including cancellation of the present lease of Gabtoli Cattle Market, ended on Saturday. Bangladesh Meat Sellers Association (BMSA) and Dhaka Metropolitan Meat Sellers’ Association enforced the strike in the capital on Monday to press for their demands. Their other demands include relocation of tanneries from the city’s Hazaribagh area to Savar, providing permission for the import of cattle from neighbouring countries and withdrawal the DNCC chief executive officer and chief estate officer. The traders also threatened ...

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1,152 spots in capital designated for Qurbani

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MNA National Desk: A total of 1,152 spots have been designated in the capital city for Qurbani in the Eid-ul-Azha, reported news agency. Of the total spots, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has selected 648 and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) 504. Mayors of DNCC and DSCC in separate statements already urged the city dwellers to slaughter their sacrificial animals in the designated places so the corporations could manage the waste easily and timely. The corporations will also deploy 6205 extra cleaning staff, along with their regular ones. Among the extra cleaning staff, DSCC will add 5200 to its regular ...

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Government launch ‘joy’ to provide immediate support

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MNA Technology Desk: The government of Bangladesh is going to launch a mobile phone app titled ‘joy’ to provide immediate support to women and children. Women and children will able to send message pursuing support at any emergency situation by pressing emergency button of the app. Pressing the emergency button the victims will capable to forward a message for help to national helpline centre (10921), police control room, nearest police station and three FnF (friend and family) numbers. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to reveal the application ‘joy’ at the 86th birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib on ...

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DNCC launched mobile application to get complaints

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MNA Technology Desk: As news agency reports, DNCC (Dhaka North City Corporation) launched a digital mobile application titled ‘Nogor’ to get complaints from city residents. The city residents can also send the pictures of any irregularities to the DNCC by using the app. Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, LGRD and Cooperative minister, inducted the digital app at an occasion at the city’s Krishibid Institution Bangladesh. Presided by DNCC Mayor Annisul Huq, the event was addressed, among others, by state minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bangladesh University Nusrat Jamil Azher. By using the ...

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